the ideal would be to replace them all with a VAR and call it in from your code but i dont know how efficient that will be as i understand that bash even thou powerful is not a complete programming enviroment and maybe it will be too long a code + constant VAR calling etc...

Using just GNU gettext is working in shell.
see screenshot for Afrikaans and Française.

Version 1.7. See main post.
1 - Enhanced access to configuration options.
2 - Enhanced access to suspend features in ACPI compliant notebooks.
3 - Added option to enable or disable the ‘Remove CD” dialog at shutdown.
4 - Added options to hide/show the Label Name and Graphic Logo.
5 - Added support for the Xdialog font-color selector in 64-bit Puppy derivatives (with continued support for 32-bit derivatives).
6 - Added support for the Yad and Zenity font-color selectors in 32-bit and 64-bit Puppy derivatives.
7 - Added a localized version of PupShutdown with a simplified graphical user interface and reduced text burden. Currently, this version is localized for English and French -- thank you esmourguit, vezuve, Don570, and L18L.

I find it a bit confusing that a couple of the buttons
do nothing when first clicked.

When the application is run for the first time,
you should check for the existence of 'pmirror'
and 'pprocess' and if they are installed you
should connect them to the corresponding
buttons in the window.

I find it a bit confusing that a couple of the buttons
do nothing when first clicked.

When the application is run for the first time,
you should check for the existence of 'pmirror'
and 'pprocess' and if they are installed you
should connect them to the corresponding
buttons in the window.

﻿Version 1.7.1 See main post.
1 - New feature: when PupShutdown is first installed, the updated pinstall script checks for file-backup and task-manager applications, and automatically assigns default selections to the GUI buttons. (thank you Don570)
2 - Bug Fix: The Yad and Zenity font-color selectors will now recall Hex color values from the prior session. This auto-recall feature is not enabled for the Xdialog color selector.

I've installed the software in Fluppy 13 lang_pack(French version)
And it's a great addition.

Some observations:

The heading of the window in French is 'PSD-LOC'
Something French or even just PupShutdown
would be preferable.

You have a choice of Labels or headings. I would like
'Fluppy' to be on that list.

When you click on the 'Log Out' button
there is no warning. A warning of loss of data would be nice.

Hi don570,

Thank you for the suggestions.

For the localized version only, I will upload PupShutdown-LOC-1.7.2 which should address your observations. The heading of the main GUI is now PupShutdown. Fluppy has been added to the Name drop-down list. Keep in mind, for the Name entry field, you can type any name you wish, and it will remain until you change it at a later date. Lastly, tool-tip warnings have been added to the Power-Off, Reboot and Log-Out buttons. You may want to check the French translation.

Or rather, it will be useful if it solves a serious shortcoming of the standard shutdown for multisession Puppy. The problem occurs only rarely, thank goodness; when it does happen, it's a nasty one.

Here's the problem: when I choose shut down -> Save to CD, if things don't go exactly right for some reason, there's no way to back out of the shutdown sequence and return to the desktop so I can try to fix whatever is wrong. I have to just power off the computer and lose all the changes I wanted to save to the CD.

Or rather, it will be useful if it solves a serious shortcoming of the standard shutdown for multisession Puppy...Here's the problem: when I choose shut down -> Save to CD, if things don't go exactly right for some reason, there's no way to back out of the shutdown sequence and return to the desktop so I can try to fix whatever is wrong. I have to just power off the computer and lose all the changes I wanted to save to the CD...Can you tell me if it allows me to back out of the shutdown and return to the desktop?

Hi Flash,

PupShutdown is a simple GUI for selecting different shutdown options available in most Puppy builds. When you select the 'Power-Off' (or 'Reboot') option for your multisession shutdown, the PupShutdown program quickly exits after calling Puppy's wmpoweroff (or wmreboot) script, at which point the shutdown process is fully controlled by that Puppy script.

davids45 wrote:

I've been having a possibly similar problem to Flash with my new desktop set-up and most recent Puppies based on Lupu-525...The computer has a radeon HD5450 graphics card...Boot parameters like radeon.modeswitch=1 have been suggested but I don't know I have a Frugal Save-file problem until it's too late.

Hi davids45,

Your frustration is shared by many. The "radeon.nomodeset=1" parameter is frequently helpful for display problems with radeon graphics, but resolving issues with graphics recognition can be frustrating. Unfortunately, PupShutdown is just a menu program, with no solution for your problem.

This would avoid the need of a preference setting for a remove CD warning. The user would just have to click the button once.

Hi don570,

If the shutdown dialog is permanently dismissed by the one-time button click, a user would not have the option to enable the dialog at a later date. Of course, this assumes a few may actually prefer the optional dialog . I’ll keep your suggestion in mind, but I think the current enable/disable option is very easy to access in Preferences, and this may appeal to those want more control of their Puppy configuration.

don570 wrote:

Another problem I found is with the color setter with Fluppy013... /usr/bin/gcolor2 isn't launched.

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